Providing the complete picture of the global channel and programming content industry with detailed market sizing metrics including revenues for TV channels
and online services at worldwide and country levels, segmented by advertising revenues, public funding, carriage fees and direct-to-consumer subscriptions.

Critical analysis of today’s market for tablet devices and their ecosystem. Includes full data on key market metrics such as installed base, shipments, and sales (globally and regionally), as well as expert analysis of the latest product releases and trends.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies can be empowering instead of fearsome by enabling healthcare practitioners to put greater focus on patient care. This viewpoint, IHS Markit finds, is increasingly voiced throughout the healthcare industry as it adjusts to disruptive changes wrought by digital and transformative technologies.

Detailed information on channel revenue and program expenditure. Revenue data includes splits for carriage revenue, direct to consumer subscriptions and advertising. Programming data covers spend on original content, acquisitions and sport.

Royal Philips has today announced an agreement to acquire the Healthcare Information Systems business line of Carestream Health Inc. The expectation is that combining Carestream’s cloud-based enterprise imaging platform with Philip’s radiology informatics products (including its own enterprise imaging solutions), will not only augment their overall technology platform, but will expand Philip’s footprint in Latin America, Europe, and Asia, where Carestream has been working to gain an installed base of healthcare systems.

On 1 March, Siemens acquired German PV inverter supplier Kaco New Energy as it seeks to build out its PV inverter portfolio to include three-phase string inverters. This acquisition is further evidence of Siemens expanding its capabilities in the area of decentralised energy, renewables, storage and electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure prior to its launch of its Smart Infrastructure Operating Company on 1 April 2019.

Following early FY 2018 reporting by the five of the six largest pay TV operators (Comcast, DirecTV, Charter, FiOS, and U-verse), the US pay TV market is on track for the largest drop in penetration in its history. IHS Markit expects pay TV penetration of pay TV homes to decline nearly 4% in 2018, while the next largest loss was in 2017 with slightly more than a 3% drop. AT&T was the largest contributor to the decline in 2018 with its satellite unit losing more than 1.2 million subscribers in the year. Other notable declines in pay TV subscribers included Comcast (-371,000) and Charter (-296,000).

Brazil is the fifth-largest media market in the world, after China, India, the U.S. and Indonesia. Understanding what’s driving video subscription and consumption behaviors is a crucial step in successfully mapping the future of the country’s content and distribution businesses. Connected consumers in Brazil are interested in viewing content in non-traditional ways, which will put added pressure on traditional content and distribution systems when the economy recovers.

The PV Inverter Market Tracker is the only detailed and reliable assessment of the global market for solar inverters. The tracker provides new forecasts and supplier market shares for the global inverter market every quarter, highlighting the opportunities and challenges that will face inverter makers over the next 5-10 years.